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. i , j . I GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Bay a Liberty Bond today. Keep on buying until it hurts. YOUR 0 LIBERTY BOND. — It will protect 1.000 soldiers from smallpox and ««« from typhoid. It will assure the safety of 139 wounded soldiers from lockjaw, the germs "of which swarm in Belgian soil. It will render painless 400 oiK rations. supply two miles «,f bandages, enough to bandage .v»5 wounds. It will care for 100 injuries in the way of "first-aid packets." It will furnish adhesive plaster ami surgical gauze enough to benefit thousands of wounded soldiers. Every purchaser of a Lilierty Loan Bond performs a distinct individual service to his country and to our boys fighting in Frame. BUY A LIBERTY BOND TODAY. THIRD LIBERTY LOAN BUTTON.— The button which will be given to every subscriber to a Liberty Loan Bond «»f the third issue, whether of :• 850 txmd or a $.10,000 one. will have a border of brilliant red and a blue field with a liberty bell and the words "Third Liberty Loan" in white. Sixteen million of these buttons are now- ready for delivery and will be given out when the subscriptions are made. WHAT YOUR LIBERTY BOND WILL ACCOMPLISH. --Eighteen thousand dollars invested in Liberty Bonds will equip an infantry bat hi lion with rifles; 0,000 will construct a base hospital with 500 bods, or equin an infantry brigade with pistols; 00.0oo will huv" five combat airplanes, or pistols rifles :,i,d half ii million rounds of ammunition for an infantry regiment. Every day rinds the allies in a Utter paatttaa to resist with* definit suecess the great German of-. tensive. ,-ie oriliug to an official review yesterday by the British unitary attache at Washington. Fn mli. Itritish and American reserves are louring in daily to help check the German drive, tin- review declares. Germany apparently is preparing for another big effori on the wide battle front in northern France. Heavy drumfire such as usually precedes an attack is reported along extensive- sectors held by the Brit-ishr while the Paris war office also announces violent artillery actions along the French frou!. Unofficial niorts- to the Treasury Department rt — 111 l il i J put the first days subscriptions in the third Liberty Iajhu campaign at 50,000,000. Offi cials said this probably was somewhat tio high, though, as first reimrts usually are too optimistic. Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan in the New York Federal Reserve distri.-t were estimated at 05.314. taw at 11 a. in. yesterday. Forty persons were injured, but none killed, in a double train collision on the New York Central lines near Amsterdam, X. Y.
